DIRECTIONS
In a blender, first add cacao powder, then all remaining ingredients on top. Blend until it reaches a creamy texture. Scrape the sides of the blender and mix in to ensure it is all blended evenly. Fill ramekins with the mixture and serve immediately!

DIRECTIONS
In a blender, first add cacao powder, then all remaining ingredients on top. Blend until it reaches a creamy texture. Scrape the sides of the blender and mix in to ensure it is all blended evenly. Fill ramekins with the mixture and serve immediately!

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We hope everyone had a fantastic christmas with your family and friends. As the new year approaches and people start to consider their resolutions, we suggest you take the time to think about how you are really going to reach your health and fitness goals for 2013. Instead of the typical resolutions of starting a diet in the new year or starting a cardio/weight training program to lose weight, we suggest you create a resolution to change your MINDSET toward your eating habits and exercise patterns. To gain and then maintain a lean, fit, healthy and disease free body for life you must follow a consistent healthy eating plan personalised to suit you, your exercise program must include cardio and strength training for fat loss, lean muscle gain, cardiovascular and overall general health, this takes discipline, and this all comes down to MINDSET. Make this new years resolution to change your MINDSET towards your eating and exercise to create your fit, healthy and dis-ease free body FOR LIFE!!! Our fantastic team at Xtreme Results wish you all a happy new year. We are looking forward to working with all our current and future clients in 2013!!!!

1. Bring a large pot of water to the boil over high heat. Meanwhile, cut top off capsicums 1 inch from the stem end and remove seeds etc. Add several generous pinches of salt to boiling water then add peppers and boil, using a spoon to keep peppers completely submerged, until colour turns bright and they soften, approx. 3 minutes. Drain then set aside to cool.

2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Heat 4 tablespoons oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add onions and cook stirring often, until soft and translucent about 5 minutes. Add garlic and cook a minute more. Remove skillet from heat, add meat, rice, tomatoes and oregano. Season generously with salt and pepper, Mix well. You may find it easier to put the ingredients at this point into a large bowl and mix together with your hands.

3. Drizzle remaining 1 tablespoon of olive oil inside the peppers. Arrange the cut side of the peppers up in a baking dish, then stuff peppers with filling. Add ¼ cup of water to the baking dish. Place in oven and bake for 40-50 minutes or longer, depending on how big the peppers are that you are stuffing. ENJOY!!!

Directions 1. Mix together the protein powder, oatmeal, peanut butter, honey and milk. 2. Form into 5 bars and then roll in the crushed peanuts to finish. 3. Place in the fridge for about 30-45 minutes or until solid

Are you constantly fatigued, always suffering from DOMS, eating clean but not getting lean?

I have come across many people in my career who suffer adrenal fatigue which affects so many aspects, but in this article I am going to focus on how it affects our muscle gains and fat loss goals, read my article below so you better understand the condition and can recognise the symptoms, as studies show this will happen to 95% of people at some time in their lives.

Adrenal glands are small disc like glands approximately the size of a grape, which situate right above each kidney. There function is to secrete a number of hormones to prepare our bodies to respond to external and internal stress, these include adrenaline, epinephrine, norepinephrine, cortisol and cortisone, they also produce, testosterone, oestrogen, progesterone, pregnenelone and DHEA.

Below is a list of symptoms of adrenal fatigue:

Excessive fatigue, waking up tired after sufficient sleep

Insomnia

Feeling overwhelmed or unable to cope

Craving salty and/or sweet food

Sensitivity to light

Slow recovery from injury, illness, exercise

Lack of concentration, reduced memory

Trouble with digestion, IBS

Low immunity – always getting sick

Severe pre menstrual, menopause

Low blood pressure- dizziness when standing

Anxiety, irritability, depression, panic attacks, anxiety attacks

Low libidos, sexual drive or interest

Excess hunger or low appetite

Quick to anger, impatience

When we are under stress situations we over-secrete cortisol since our adrenal glands are too fatigued to perform properly. Any little increase in cortisol will cause fat to be stored preferably around our waist. Adrenal fatigue also has an effect on our blood sugar levels, cortisol helps to keep our blood sugar at appropriate levels to meet our energy demands, so once cortisol drops due to adrenal fatigue, our body can’t maintain adequate blood sugar levels. A quick drop in blood sugar affects our ability to store nutrients where we’d like and creates a state of insulin resistance in the muscle cell therefore we store nutrients as fat, and since we have a rapid state of hypoglycemia, we’re more likely to sway from our diet and eat whatever we crave.

To make things worse, 80% of sufferers from adrenal issues also suffer from decreased thyroid function, due to the adrenal fatigue these people are unresponsive to thyroid medications, so they need to first address the adrenal issues first to rectify this. Along with all this there is an increase in allergies and joint pain since cortisol is the most powerful anti-inflammatory in the body, therefore when cortisol levels are low we have an inflammatory reaction that increases the severity of our allergies and joint pain. Lastly we will also turn to salty food therefore increasing water retention “bloated feeling”.

Adrenal fatigue is caused by many things including but not limited too:

Soy

Toxins from food and medication

Too many carbohydrates produce’s too much insulin read as stress

Not enough cholesterol in the diet (hence your cheat meal)

Over consumption of caffeine

Zinc deficiency

Lack of salt

I will go into further detail in how the above directly affects the body in further posts. If you suspect you may have adrenal fatigue I recommend you seek a physician experienced with this condition, preferably one whom also believes in natural medicine.

In regards to training you do not need to stop but I advise you to seek an educated personal trainer who has experience with clients with adrenal fatigue as there is certain ways you should and shouldn’t train through this condition, nutrition is key to recover from this condition, so an adrenal fatigue appropriate nutritional plan is imperative.

It stands for Fascia Stretch Training (A fascia is a structure of connective tissue that surrounds muscles, groups of muscles, blood vessels, and nerves, binding some structures together, while permitting others to slide smoothly over each other, like a protective sock) the seven refers to 7 sets performed usually as the final exercise of a target body part. Basically you train that body part on any given day as heavy as you normally would, keeping the rep range between 8-12, but the last exercise you perform the seven sets to finish off that particular muscle, with minimal rest in between to get the best pump possible, keep rest intervals between 30-45 seconds and making sure to stay hydrated to push that fluid into the muscle and stretch the fascia even further.

You should refrain from using compound lifts as your “seven set,” because they require balance and the use of ancillary muscles that takes focus off the target muscle. Machines and cables are a good idea and free weights like barbell curls and skull crushers also work well for this “seven set”. Perform your “seven set” at the end of the workout for that muscle group.

The goal is to bring as much vitamins, minerals, amino acids, oxygen etc. into the muscle, and also stretch the fascia surrounding it to help encourage maximal muscle growth. The fascia is the limiting factor in achieving muscle growth because the muscle will grow only as much as there is room for it to do so. This training system is targeted to stretch the fascia and allow more room, instead of limiting muscle growth.

Restricting the “seven sets” as your last exercise is recommended for new users of this training principle. This will allow you to lift heavy for first few exercises before taking the muscle to failure. There are many other variations for advanced users, including “front-loading the seven sets”, to allow creativity in workouts and to shock and further stretch the fascia and enhance muscle growth.